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GENITAL PHASE [4 records]

Record 1 2012-01-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Human Behaviour
CONT

Psychoanalytic theory, as first offered by Freud, assumes that the child passes through a series of stages ... During the final and so-called genital stage of development, gratification is said to be sought in a love relationship with another.

CONT

Freudians claim that in normal development the child undergoes the invariant transition from a so-called oral stage to an anal stage to a genital stage, and they attribute various aspects of psychological dysfunctions in the adult to an earlier failure to move successfully from one stage to the next.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Comportement humain
DEF

[...] dernier stade de la sexualité infantile avant la puberté pendant lequel les pulsions sexuelles s'organisent sous le primat de la génitalité.

Spanish

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Record 2 2007-08-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Symptoms (Medicine)
  • Reproduction (Medicine)
DEF

The physiologic cessation of menstruation, usually between the forty-fifth and fifty-fifth years.

CONT

The menopause ("change of life") is the counterpart of the menarche and refers only to cessation of menstruation; it is merely one manifestation of the climacteric and precedes complete cessation of ovarian function by several months or years.

OBS

The climacteric is the counterpart of puberty and is a transitional phase lasting from 1 to 5 years during which the genital organs involute in response to the cessation of gonadal activity.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Symptômes (Médecine)
  • Reproduction (Médecine)
DEF

Époque climatérique de la femme se situant normalement entre 50 et 55 ans, caractérisée par l'extinction des fonctions ovariennes et la disparition totale de la menstruation.

OBS

Il vaudrait mieux utiliser le terme de climatère pour l'ensemble des phénomènes qui résultent du déclin de la fonction ovarienne et qui s'étalent entre 45 et 60 ans.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Síntomas (Medicina)
  • Reproducción (Medicina)
DEF

Cese permanente de las menstruaciones con pérdida de la función gonadal.

OBS

No confundir con "climaterio", que es una fase de envejecimiento caracterizada por la transición hacia la capacidad no reproductora y por importantes cambios hormonales.

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Record 3 1999-04-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psychology (General)
DEF

the infantile period which precedes the genital phase.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie (Généralités)

Spanish

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Record 4 1977-10-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Clinical Psychology
DEF

That stage of libidinal development in which libidinal and aggressive energies are concentrated mainly in the genital area(penis and clitoris) ;the phallic phase follows the anal phase and is generally in evidence during the period of four to six years of age.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie clinique
DEF

(...) dernière phase d'organisation infantile de la libido, après les stades oral et anal, où les pulsions instinctives sont axées sur la zone génitale.

Spanish

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